About Water Damage Restoration in Somerville, MA

The work

Water damage restoration shaped by Somerville buildings

Most of Somerville went up between the 1880s and the 1930s: wood-frame triple-deckers and two-families packed onto the city's hills, many of them now divided into condos. Plaster on lath, old-growth floors, steam radiators and fieldstone basements decide how a water loss plays out, and how it has to be dried.

The restoration team extracts water from basements and units, dries plaster, hardwood and masonry to the IICRC S500 standard, and keeps the moisture map, the photos and the daily readings that an insurance adjuster looks for, with a separate record for each unit when a leak crosses a condo line.

The approach stays the same on every job: measure before drying, remove only what cannot be saved, and keep the equipment running until the readings say dry.

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The standard

How the dry-out is held to a standard

• Moisture mapping first

  Thermal imaging and pinless meters show what is wet before any equipment goes down.

• Category and class

  Category 1, 2 and 3 water are handled differently; Class 1 to 4 sets the equipment count.

• Structural drying

  Air movers, LGR dehumidifiers and desiccants dry the structure, not just the surface.

• Verified dry

  Equipment leaves when readings sit within 2 to 4 points of a dry reference.

• IICRC S500 drying standard
• Truck-mounted extraction
• Daily moisture readings
• Structural drying, not just surface